Account numbers, tax returns, credit reports, and statements live on every drive in a financial office. Federal rules require you to dispose of them securely.
Wealth advisors, CPA and tax-prep firms, mortgage brokers, credit unions, and fintech startups all hold data that regulators treat as sensitive by default. When laptops, file servers, and scanners retire, the data on them needs to be destroyed to a standard — not deleted.
EndByte sanitizes every drive to NIST 800-88 or physically destroys it, verifies the result, and issues a certificate per drive. That gives your written information security program a concrete, auditable disposal step.
Financial institutions must securely dispose of customer information no later than two years after it was last used to serve the customer, unless it's still needed or must be retained.
Anyone disposing of consumer report information must take reasonable measures to protect it — including destroying or erasing electronic media so the information can't be read or reconstructed.
California businesses must dispose of customer records containing personal information by shredding, erasing, or otherwise making them unreadable.
General information, not legal advice. Your compliance obligations depend on your organization — check with your counsel or compliance lead.
Every drive logged by serial before it moves, so your asset records and ours match.
Every wiped drive is read back in full. Anything that fails is physically destroyed.
Model, serial, method, date, and result — formatted for the people who audit you.
A documented, repeatable disposal step for your written information security program.
Sealed transport from your office, or witnessed destruction on site.
Retiring 100+ working drives? You may qualify for the free program.
We'll quote it the same day and document every drive.